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A node's status comes from its HTTP heartbeat. Backend installs travel over NATS. The two are independent, so a worker that dies stops answering on the bus at once but stays healthy in the database until its heartbeat ages out. Inside that window the scheduler picked a node it could not reach, and the request failed with "no responders available" rather than moving to a node that was up. The scheduler now probes the node it selected and, when nothing answers, marks it unhealthy and selects again. The demotion is what makes the retry terminate: the next selection reads only healthy nodes. It also tells the other frontends what this one learned, so the cluster does not rediscover a dead worker one failed request at a time. Only nats.ErrNoResponders counts as absent. A worker that answers slowly stays eligible, because dropping it would cost capacity that is really there. The probe reuses the models.running subject: a new subject would go unanswered by workers that have not been upgraded, and every one of them would then look dead. Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io> Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5 [golangci-lint]